Bergliot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE BFGH BFIJ KBGH LIHK HKMH BBFN FOMP HHHQ MBHC MHFR I BSRF THUV QWXY F FFHHFMFMHHHHHYZYF B B BBBBBIBI BBMM FQSB GGFGB GFA2H GYFQ BFSB MHBHB GMFFG MMBS YBBBG BFB MMFB2 MBBFGFBGFFG C2BYM GMBBF MMD2MRGD2 YGMHH MFBM BIGMYD2| In her lodgings | A |
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| To day King Harald | B |
| Must hold his ting peace | C |
| For Einar has here | D |
| Five hundred peasants | E |
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| Our son Eindride | B |
| Safeguards his father | F |
| Who goes in fearless | G |
| The King defying | H |
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| Thus maybe Harald | B |
| Mindful that Einar | F |
| Has crowned in Norway | I |
| Two men with kingship | J |
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| Will grant that peace be | K |
| On law well grounded | B |
| This was his promise | G |
| His people's longing | H |
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| What rolling sand waves | L |
| Swirl up the roadway | I |
| What noise is nearing | H |
| Look forth my footboy | K |
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| The wind's but blowing | H |
| Here storms beat wildly | K |
| The fjord is open | M |
| The fells low lying | H |
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| The town's unchanged | B |
| Since child I trod it | B |
| The wind sends hither | F |
| The snarling sea hounds | N |
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| What flaming thunder | F |
| From thousand voices | O |
| Steel weapons redden | M |
| With stains of warfare | P |
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| The shields are clashing | H |
| See sand clouds rising | H |
| Speer billows rolling | H |
| Round Tambarskelve | Q |
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| Hard is his fortune | M |
| Oh faithless Harald | B |
| Death's ravens roving | H |
| Ride o'er thy ting peace | C |
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| Fetch forth the wagon | M |
| Drive to the fighting | H |
| At home to cower | F |
| Would cost my life now | R |
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| On the way | I |
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| O yeomen yield not | B |
| Circle and save him | S |
| Eindride aid now | R |
| Thine aged father | F |
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| Build a shield bulwark | T |
| For him bow bending | H |
| Death has no allies | U |
| Like Einar's arrows | V |
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| And thou Saint Olaf | Q |
| Oh for thy son's sake | W |
| Help him with good words | X |
| In Gimle's high hall | Y |
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| Nearer | F |
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| Our foes are the stronger | F |
| They fight now no longer | F |
| Subduing | H |
| Pursuing | H |
| They press to the river | F |
| What is it that's done | M |
| What makes me thus quiver | F |
| Will fortune us shun | M |
| What stillness astounding | H |
| The peasants are staying | H |
| Their lances now grounding | H |
| Two dead men surrounding | H |
| Nor Harald delaying | H |
| What throngs now enwall | Y |
| The ting hall's high door | Z |
| Silent they all | Y |
| Let me pass o'er | F |
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| Where is Eindride | B |
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| Glances of pity | B |
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| Fear lest they show it | B |
| Flee lest they greet me | B |
| So I must know it | B |
| Two deaths there will meet me | B |
| Room I must see | B |
| Oh it is they | I |
| Can it so be | B |
| Yes it is they | I |
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| Fallen the noblest | B |
| Chief of the Northland | B |
| Best of Norwegian | M |
| Bows is broken | M |
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| Fallen is Einar | F |
| Tambarskelve | Q |
| Our son beside him | S |
| Eindride | B |
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| Murdered with malice | G |
| He who to Magnus | G |
| More was than father | F |
| King Knut the Mighty's | G |
| Son's counselor good | B |
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| Slain by assassins | G |
| Svolder's sharp shooter | F |
| The lion that leaped on the | A2 |
| Heath of Lyrskog | H |
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| Pride of the peasants | G |
| Snared in a pitfall | Y |
| Time honored Tronder | F |
| Tambarskelve | Q |
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| White haired and honored | B |
| Hurled to the hounds here | F |
| Our son beside him | S |
| Eindride | B |
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| Up up ye peasants he has fallen | M |
| But he who felled him is living | H |
| Have you not known me Bergliot | B |
| Daughter of Haakon from Hj rungavaag | H |
| Now I am Tambarskelve's widow | B |
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| To you I appeal peasant warriors | G |
| My aged husband has fallen | M |
| See see here is blood on his blanching hair | F |
| Your heads shall it be on forever | F |
| For cold it becomes while vain is your vengeance | G |
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| Up up warriors your chieftain has fallen | M |
| Your honor your father the joy of your children | M |
| Legend of all the valley hero of all the land | B |
| Here he has fallen will you not avenge him | S |
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| Murdered with malice within the king's hall | Y |
| The ting hall the hall of the law thus murdered | B |
| Murdered by him whom the law holds highest | B |
| From heaven will lightning fall on the land | B |
| If thus left unpurged by the flames of vengeance | G |
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| Launch the long ships from land | B |
| Einar's nine long ships are lying here | F |
| Let them hasten vengeance on Harald | B |
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| If he stood here Haakon Ivarson | M |
| If he stood here on the hill my kinsman | M |
| The fjord should not save the slayer of Einar | F |
| And I should not seek you cowards who flinch | B2 |
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| Oh peasants hear me my husband has fallen | M |
| The high seat of my thoughts through years half a hundred | B |
| Overthrown it now is and by its right side | B |
| Our only son fell oh all our future | F |
| All is now empty between my two arms | G |
| Can I ever again lift them up in prayer | F |
| Or whither on earth shall I betake me | B |
| If I go and stay in the places of strangers | G |
| I shall long for those where we lived together | F |
| But if I betake me thither | F |
| Ah them themselves I shall miss | G |
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| Odin in Valhall I dare not beseech | C2 |
| For him I forsook in days of childhood | B |
| But the great new God in Gimle | Y |
| All that I had He has taken | M |
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| Vengeance Who speaks of vengeance | G |
| Can vengeance the dead awaken | M |
| Or cover me warm from the cold | B |
| Find I in it a widow's seat sheltered | B |
| Solace to cheer a childless mother | F |
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| Away with your vengeance Let me alone | M |
| Lay him on the wagon him and our son | M |
| Come we will follow them home | D2 |
| That God in Gimle new and fearful who all has taken | M |
| Let Him now also take vengeance Well He knows how | R |
| Drive slowly For so drove Einar always | G |
| Soon enough we shall come home | D2 |
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| The dogs to day will not greet us gladly | Y |
| But drearily howl with drooping tails | G |
| And lifting their heads the horses will listen | M |
| Neighing they stand the stable door watching | H |
| Eindride's voice awaiting | H |
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| In vain for his voice will they hearken | M |
| Nor hears the hall the step of Einar | F |
| That called before him for all to arise and stand | B |
| For now came their chieftain | M |
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| Too large the house is I will lock it | B |
| Workmen servants send away | I |
| Sell the cattle and the horses | G |
| Move far hence and live alone | M |
| Drive slowly | Y |
| Soon enough we shall come home | D2 |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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